Palm’s Banking On Standardization With Nova. Not Going To Happen

Palm is expecting to launch back into stardom with the launch of their latest phone this week at the CES conference in Las Vegas. The new phone, which many claim to be competitive with the iPhone (yawn, heard that before), is running Palm’s brand new Nova operating system. This will be Palm’s big push into a standardized platform which will allow third-party developers to submit applications. The above photo is a mock-up from CrunchGear, and PalmDoc based on the widespread rumor that the phone will have a slide-down QWERTY keyboard.

CEO, Ed Colligan, who’s watched Palm’s stock price fall off Mt.Everest this year, is putting all his chips in on this new operating system. He says they have been working incredibly hard on the new technology and it is already getting “amazing” reviews from those who have been able to play around with it. Personally, I feel that standardization is not going to be the kicker to push any of the phone manufacturers over the top. The golden days of the OEM’s were when the decks were fully controlled by them and the carriers (i.e $$$).
Look out for the official Palm announcement this Thursday. We’ll see if it can’t give that stock price a little nudge.